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Quarter 1 |
Quarter 2 |
Quarter 3 |
Quarter 4 |
| Unit Titles |
Fiction, Novels, Short Stories and Poetry study |
Nonfiction reading and writing and speech study |
Poetry, Reading Workshop, and/or Reader’s Theater study |
Myths, Folk Tales, Fairy Tales and Fables |
| Learning Outcomes |
Students will learn and study during Writing and Reading Workshop:
- Summarize using the skills of delete, substitute, keep
- Know structures and literary features in text
- Make inferences based on evidence
- Analyze characters
Students will set up their Reading and Writing Notebooks
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Students will learn and study during Writing and Reading Workshop:
- Using features of URLs, hypertext, and all features of on-line text
- Understanding primary and secondary sources
- Generating broad, yet distinct, arguments
- Selecting diction or word choice appropriate for audience
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Students will learn and understand during Writing and Reading Workshop:
- poetic language
- poetic devices that are used to convey ideas, feelings and images
- increasing fluency by using Reader’s Theater
- difference between what an author states or what s/he implies
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Students will learn during Writing and Reading Workshop:
- Literary and character elements that are often exaggerated in stories
- Some universally told themes
- Determine characteristics of myths, folk tales, fairy tales and fables
- The same lesson expressed in many stories across time and across cultures
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| Significant Task |
- Write a short story about a theme the student is interested in exploring in fiction.
- Timed persuasive essay
- Choose at least two Literacy Performance tasks
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- Write a persuasive speech to deliver to the class.
- Timed persuasive essay
- Choose at least two Literacy Performance tasks
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- Write five different types of poems & create a personal mini-poetry book.
- Using one poem and one song that deal with the same theme show how they are alike and how they are different.
- Choose at least two Literacy Performance tasks
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- Compare and contrast characters in two myths, folk tales, fairy tales or fables
- Timed comparison essay
- Choose at least two Literacy Performance tasks
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| Content
Supporting Materials
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- Novels
- Autobiographies
- Poems
- Short stories
- Novels
- Memoirs/personal narrative
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- Nonfiction reading:
- Newspapers
- Articles
- Essays
- Diaries, letters
- Speeches
- Informational text
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- Poetry
- Songs
- Reader’s Theatre scripts
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- Novels
- Fiction
- Short stories
- Poetry
- Myths, Folk Tales, Fairy Tales and Fables
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